Monterschu

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

lake

Municipality :

Gurmels

Postal code :

3212

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

579.27 thousand / 192 504 coordinates: 46 ° 53 '0 " N , 7 ° 10' 0" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred seventy / one hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred and four

Height :

599 m above sea level M.

Residents:

46 (1978)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 1978

Monterschu is a hamlet and formerly an independent political municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1978, Monterschu merged with the then Grossgurmels to form the new municipality of Gurmels .

geography

Monterschu lies at 599 m above sea level. M. , one and a half kilometers south of Gurmels and seven kilometers southeast of the district capital Murten (as the crow flies). The hamlet extends on a wide ridge northeast of the Bulliardholz , between the valley of the Cordastbach in the north and the Schiffenensee in the south, in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . The small municipal area comprised the plateau of Monterschu and reached in the southwest to the forest height of the Bulliardholz ( 668 m above sea level ).

population

With 46 inhabitants (1978), Monterschu was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In addition to the hamlet, some individual farms also belong to Monterschu.

economy

Monterschu still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture , fruit growing and cattle breeding .

traffic

The village is located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Courtepin to Kleingurmels . Monterschu has no connection to the public transport network.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1223 under the name Moncorsum . Later the names Montcorsu (1363) and Monterson (1423) appeared. Monterschu was owned by the Counts of Thierstein since the Middle Ages . In 1442 the village came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase and from then on belonged to the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner).

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Monterschu initially belonged to the Murten district during the Helvetic Republic, from 1803 to the Freiburg district and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. On January 1, 1978, Monterschu was the first community to merge with the then Grossgurmels. The new congregation was now called Gurmels .

Attractions

The castle in Monterschu is a manor house built in the second half of the 18th century .

Web links

Official website of the municipality of Gurmels
Eveline Seewer: Monterschu. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .